Hecha O. Revolutions, Political Transformations and Wars of the First Half of the Twentieth Century in the Life of the Jewish Communities of the Right-Bank Ukraine: Collective and Personal Dimensions.

The dissertation presents the results of the study of the collective and personal dimension of life of the Jewish communities of the Right-Bank Ukraine through the prism of political transformations and wars of the first half of the twentieth century. The dissertation offers an analysis of the origins of the Holocaust and the reasons for the different behavior of non-Jews in its conditions, especially in Ukraine, where Jews have historically lived, forming, along with representatives of other ethnic groups, local polyethnic culture. The analysis of the influence of modernization processes and political transformations in 1917 – 1939s on the life of the shtetls and their inhabitants has been carried out. The peculiarities and specifics of the development of Jewish culture, educational and emigration processes in the USSR in 1920s. (in the regional context) are considered. The focus is on the processes that took place in the European towns of the Right-Bank in the context of permanent changes in the authorities in the period of 1917–1921. A separate direction is devoted to the analysis of national policies of the Ukrainian Government of the UPR and active involvement of Ukrainian Jews into the building of this state. Separate plots are personal women's and family stories, which reflect the features of the period, including the female aspect of emigration, and from the beginning of political terror – repression against the technical intelligentsia and the fate of women / children «enemies of the people». The peculiarities of the activity of international structures on the organization of Jewish resettlement in the interwar period are analyzed. The content of the dissertation includes elements of prosopographic research of the Rabinovych family. Emphasis is placed on the personal dimension of each period, which is covered in the dissertation, analysis of life experiences and strategies of behavior and survival in terror and war through the prism of everyday history, women's and oral history.